Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules and cellular… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always compare… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged. — Eric Kandel Copy Share
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from… — Eric Kandel Copy Share
